In Pelevin’s sharpest, most accessible, and most engrossing novel to date, A. Huli, a fifteen-year-old contemporary Moscow prostitute, is in truth a two-thousand-year-old werefox. After the death of a client, she is forced to work via ads placed on the internet. Eventually, she comes to the attention of Alexander, a Russian intelligence officer who, unbeknownst to her, is a werewolf. They fall in love and, many plot twists later, we discover that The Sacred Book of the Werewolf is A. Huli’s memoir.

VICTOR PELEVIN is the author of A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories, The Life of Insects, Omon Ra, The Yellow Arrow, and The Blue Lantern, a collection of short stories that won the Russian "Little Booker" Prize. His novel Buddha's Little Finger was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He was named by The New Yorker as one of the best European writers under thirty-five and by The Observer newspaper in London as one of "twenty-one writers to watch for the 21st century.